This Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting is dreamy, creamy, light, and fluffy with the perfect amount of cinnamon. It complements so many of your favorite cakes, cookies, cupcakes, and more.
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Whipped Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting
This truly is the lightest, fluffiest buttercream we’ve tried, and it's so simple. We whip together butter, sugar, vanilla extract, cinnamon and a splash of milk to get the creamiest, airiest and most perfectly balanced buttercream frosting. It’s sweet, but not hurt-your-teeth sweet, and it’s not quite as heavy as cream cheese frosting.
Be sure to taste your frosting as you go, and feel free to add more or less cinnamon to your liking. The goal is to achieve warm, cinnamon deliciousness rather than having the cinnamon overpower every other flavor.
How To Use Cinnamon Icing
- Frosting for Cupcakes: Pipe or spread over the top of cupcakes, like our yummy Pumpkin Cupcakes or Zucchini Cupcakes.
- As a substitute for cream cheese frosting: we love cream cheese frosting, but sometimes you want something a little lighter. Cinnamon Buttercream would taste great on our Pumpkin Cake, Cinnamon Twist, Sugar Cookies, or these Sugar Cookie Bars.
- Cinnamon Roll or Cookie Icing: you can spread a thin layer on top of Homemade Cinnamon Rolls, or cookies, like these Soft Molasses Cookies or Gingerbread Bars.
Ingredients in This Cinnamon Icing Recipe
- Butter - you’ll want this to be room temperature. If you forget to pull it out ahead of time, you can microwave it for about 5-10 seconds at a time, just until soft (do not melt!).
- Cinnamon - This is an optional but delicious flavor.
- Vanilla Extract- pure vanilla extract is best.
- Powdered Sugar - you should always sift your powdered sugar to remove any lumps that have formed.
- Milk - you can substitute heavy cream or evaporated milk if you like.
How to Make Cinnamon Icing
- Add the room temperature butter in the bowl of a stand mixer and whip on medium speed using the whisk attachment until it is light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add the cinnamon and vanilla extract and whisk to combine.
- Next, add the powdered sugar and 2 tablespoons of milk and whisk again until light and fluffy and completely combined.
- Add up to an additional tablespoon of milk, if needed, until desired consistency is reached. It should be thick enough to hold its shape but soft enough to spread.
- Use immediately, or store in the refrigerator or freezer. Enjoy!
Other Frosting Recipes
- Lemon Buttercream Frosting
- Raspberry Frosting
- Blood Orange Buttercream Frosting
- Cinnamon Flavored Buttercream Frosting
- Orange Creamsicle Frosting
- Cream Cheese Frosting
- Eggnog Buttercream Frosting
How To Pipe Fluffy Buttercream Frosting Like a Pro
Sure, you can frost cupcakes using a spoon or a spatula but it doesn’t take much more than a little practice to pipe them like a pro! Here are a few tips to get you started:
- Play around with tips to see which you like, but our recommendation for a simple design is a star or a round tip.
- You can purchase disposable and reusable piping bags, or in a pinch, you can use a plastic freezer bag. In the case of a freezer bag, place the piping tip you have chosen to use inside the empty freezer bag and let it fall to one corner. Cut the corner so that the tip stays inside the bag but the bag isn’t in the way of the tip. Fill with buttercream and pipe away!
- It’s best not to overfill your piping bag because your hands will warm up the frosting.
- If you mess up, carefully scrape the buttercream back into the bowl and try again!
Since it contains both butter and milk, you do need to refrigerate your buttercream. You can transfer any extra to an airtight container and store it in the fridge for up to two weeks.
To return it to its light and fluffy self, pull the container from the fridge and let it sit out to come up to room temperature. Then, transfer to your mixing bowl, whisk until fluffy, and use just like new!
Yes! Buttercream freezes beautifully. Just transfer whatever amount you want to freeze into freezer bags or an airtight container, and store frozen for up to 3 months.
Once you are ready to use, it’s easiest to thaw it out in the fridge overnight, then pull it from the fridge the next day and let it come to room temperature. All you’ll need to put it into your mixing bowl and whisk until you have fluffy buttercream frosting again.
Fridge- Buttercream Frosting is best stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 10 days.
Freezer- You can store it in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 3 months. When ready to use it, just let it thaw and whip it in your mixing bowl to make it light and fluffy. You may need to add more powdered sugar to get it back to the right consistency.
Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients
- ½ cup Butter room tempreature
- 2 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 4 cups Powdered Sugar sifted
- 2-3 tablespoons Milk can substitute heavy whipping cream or evaporated milk
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the room temperature butter and whip using the whisk attachment until it is light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add the cinnamon and vanilla extract and whisk to combine.
- Next, add the powdered sugar and 2 tablespoons of milk and whisk again until light and fluffy and completely combined.
- Add up to an additional tablespoon of milk, if needed, until desired consistency is reached.
- Use immediately, or store in the refrigerator or freezer. Enjoy!
Notes
How to Store Buttercream
If you have leftover buttercream frosting, you can store it in your fridge for a couple of weeks. Just put your buttercream frosting in a covered container with a lid. When you're ready to use it again, just take the frosting out of the fridge and let it get to room temperature again. Using a hand-held mixer, just mix the frosting again until you have fluffy buttercream frosting again.Nutrition
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This Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting is dreamy, creamy, light and fluffy with the perfect amount of cinnamon. Try spread or pipe onto your favorite cupcakes, cookies, cinnamon rolls and more.
Sandi
I loved the idea of cinnamon buttercream. This turned out so yummy!
wilhelmina
We loved this frosting! I used it as the filling between snickerdoodles to make the perfect cookie sandwich. Cinnamon Heaven!